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Continuing coverage of the Susan Powell Case
Susan Powell
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Family members of missing Utah mom Susan Powell are cheering a Washington state verdict convicting her father-in-law of 14 voyeurism charges.
updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:35 AM
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Steve Powell is led out of Judge Ronald E. Culpepper's courtroom after being found guilty of 14 counts of voyeurism in the Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma, Washington Wednesday May 16, 2012.  (Steve Griffin, The Salt Lake Trib)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A jury has convicted Steve Powell on all 14 counts of voyeurism. | Video
updated Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:08 PM
Powell family (ABC 4 News)
I do not see what Alina sees. | Video
updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:17 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A website has just been discovered that features video of the Powell family spending time together. The website says many of the claims against Steve Powell are false. | Video
updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 05:40 PM
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Steve Powell waits for closing arguments to begin in his trial for voyeurism charges in Judge Ronald E. Culpepper's courtroom in the Pierce County Superior Court  in Tacoma, Washington Tacoma, Utah Tuesday May 15, 2012. (Steve Griffin, The Salt Lake Trib)
TACOMA, Wash. (ABC 4 News) - A Washington state jury began deliberations shortly before noon in the Steven Powell voyeurism trial. The jury later informed the court that they would need more time and would continue deliberations on Wednesday.
updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 05:23 PM
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Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake TribuneSteve Powell, left, stands with his attorneys as the jury leaves the courtroom for a break during his trial for voyeurism charges in Judge Ronald E. Culpepper's courtroom in the Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma, Washington Monday May 14, 2012. (Steve Griffin, The Salt Lake Tribune)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Both the state and defense rested in trial of Steven Powell on Monday. | Video
updated Monday, May 14, 2012 08:55 PM
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Steve Powell listens as attorneys argue a series of pre-trial motions in front of Judge Ronald E. Culpepper, on the first day of his trial on voyeurism and pornography charges in the Pierce County Superior Court house, in Tacoma, Washington,  Monday, May 7, 2012.   Steve Powell is the father-in-law of missing West Valley City woman Susan Powell.  (Rick Egan, The Salt Lake Tribune)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) Round two goes to Steven Powell.
updated Tuesday, May 08, 2012 09:41 PM
Susan Powell
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A year before she disappeared, Susan Powell sent several e-mails to close friends. She was desperate and anxious to save her marriage. | Video
updated Monday, April 30, 2012 07:41 PM
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Steven Powell in court (KOMO)
OLYMPIA, Wa. (ABC 4 News) - A Washington judge has ruled against a defense motion to suppress Susan Powell's journals in the voyeurism and child pornography case against her father-in-law, Steven Powell.
updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 05:09 PM
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Josh Powell home burns
GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) - A demolition crew removed the debris Wednesday at the home in Graham where Josh Powell killed himself and his two young sons on Feb. 5 in a fiery explosion.
updated Wednesday, April 11, 2012 02:20 PM
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Josh Powell (ABC 4 News)
SEATTLE (AP) - Legal experts say prosecutors in Utah could have won a conviction had they charged Josh Powell with his wife's murder - even without having her body as evidence.
updated Monday, April 09, 2012 09:17 AM
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Steve Powell arrested (KOMO)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A co-worker of Steve Powell says the father-in-law of Susan Powell planned to travel to Utah for a camping trip shortly before she disappeared in 2009, according to an attorney. | Video
updated Friday, April 06, 2012 10:19 PM
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Steve Powell (KOMO)
OLYMPIA (AP) - A new witness has come forward in the case of missing West Valley mom Susan Powell.
updated Friday, April 06, 2012 11:09 AM
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Steven Powell - Pierce County Jail mug shot
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Police are revealing suspicious activity by Steven Powell on the night Susan Powell went missing. First there was an afternoon phone call from Josh to his father, and then Steven calling in sick the next day. These are the latest developments in the case police are building against Josh Powell’s father. | Video
updated Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:13 PM
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Josh Powell, Susan Powell (ABC 4 News)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) Police get a nod of support from county prosecutor | Video
updated Monday, April 02, 2012 07:46 PM
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Josh Powell home burns
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) -Josh Powell is still a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife Susan. But, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials in Washington say he should have been a murder suspect, and behind bars based on evidence. | Video
updated Sunday, April 01, 2012 03:06 PM
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Josh Powell (KOMO)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - With all this new information and evidence in the Josh Powell case - many are wondering why police never arrested him? The short answer - according to legal experts - its not that simple. | Video
updated Friday, March 30, 2012 10:18 PM
Documents were unsealed on March 30th, 2012 that outlined some of the evidence against Josh Powell in the disappearance of his wife Susan in 2009. (Scott Hums, ABC 4)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Previously sealed documents regarding Susan Powell revealed new information into the investigation into her disappearance. | Video | Unsealed Powell Warrants (1.4MB)
updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 09:11 AM
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Josh Powell (KOMO)
SEATTLE (AP) - A life insurance company is asking a judge to decide whether any of Josh Powell's relatives are entitled to collect on a $1.5 million policy after he killed himself and his two sons in a house fire last month.
updated Wednesday, March 07, 2012 01:28 PM
Powell home in Washington (KOMO)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Steve Powell's attorney wants a judge to toss evidence seized from his home last summer. | Video
updated Tuesday, March 06, 2012 06:13 PM
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) –Disturbing details surrounding Josh Powell’s psychological examinations are being revealed in new documents released by Washington State today. The papers reveal an in-depth look at Josh Powell's troubled mind and visits with his children. | Video
updated Saturday, March 03, 2012 02:10 PM
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Chuck and Judy Cox sit in Charlie and Braden Powell's room (ABC 4 News)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Josh Powell's in-laws say Washington's child protection system is flawed.
updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 02:48 PM
Susan Cox Powell (Scott Hardman, Hardman Photography)
MAGNA, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Plans to build a memorial for Susan Powell and her two boys are underway.
updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 06:04 AM
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Powell family
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) - Plans are under way for a Utah memorial honoring missing West Valley City mom Susan Cox Powell and her two sons.
updated Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:08 AM
Powell family (ABC 4 News)
We need answers. The documents coming out are key to getting those answers.
updated Friday, February 24, 2012 06:06 PM
Chuck and Judy Cox sit in Charlie and Braden Powell's room (ABC 4 News)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The Cox family is considering a lawsuit against Washington state social service agencies. | Video
updated Monday, February 20, 2012 06:17 PM
Josh Powell (ABC 4 News)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Documents show that investigators in Washington recovered hundreds of images of disturbing, sexualized cartoon images from Josh Powell's computer.
updated Friday, February 17, 2012 02:51 PM
Powell family (ABC 4 News)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A Cox family attorney says Josh Powell won't be buried in same cemetery as sons.
updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 01:39 PM
Josh Powell (KOMO)
SEATTLE (AP) - Josh Powell's surviving relatives want him buried at the same cemetery as the two sons he killed, the city manager in Puyallup said Wednesday. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:14 PM
Landfill search in Powell investigation (KOMO)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) - A Utah hotel worker says she has spoken to authorities about her encounter with Josh Powell and his boys the morning his wife was reported missing in 2009.
updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:25 AM
Landfill search in Powell investigation (KOMO)
PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) - The Pierce County sheriff's office says a search has resumed at a recycling center near Puyallup for papers that Josh Powell is believed to have dumped before he killed himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.
updated Monday, February 13, 2012 10:47 AM
Charlie and Braden Powell (Hardman Photography)
WEST VALLEY CITY- (ABC 4 News) Family, friends and well wishers in the community gathered in Hunters park to say good-by, and mourn the loss of Charlie and Braden Powell.
updated Sunday, February 12, 2012 02:09 PM
Josh Powell (ABC 4 News)
SEATTLE (AP) - Police in Washington state who searched a storage unit rented by Josh Powell found a stained comforter that tested positive for blood in initial exams, according to documents filed in court Friday.
updated Friday, February 10, 2012 03:29 PM
Elizabeth Griffin-Hall talking to ABC News at the deadly fire at Josh Powell's house. (ABC News)
SEATTLE (AP) - The Washington state social worker who was supposed to supervise a visit between Josh Powell and his young sons says Powell told his oldest boy he had a "surprise" for him moments before attacking and killing the children.
updated Thursday, February 09, 2012 05:53 PM
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Larry Benson, husband of social worker assigned to Powell's case, talks with reporters outside his Washington home Wednesday afternoon.
GRAHAM, Washington (ABC 4 News) - The husband of the social worker who witnessed the explosion at Josh Powell's house said his wife is traumatized and called the incident a "life changing" event. | Video
updated Thursday, February 09, 2012 08:51 AM
Josh Powell, 2 young boys, killed in powerful house explosion (Josh Starkey, KOMO TV )
GRAHAM Washington (ABC 4 News) - It took a sheriff deputy fourteen minutes to respond to a call for help. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:16 PM
Charlie and Braden Powell (Hardman Photography)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – In hindsight many are questioning why it was up to a social worker to protect the Powell children, and why the visitation was in a private a home. We asked local experts. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 07:22 PM
Charlie and Braden Powell (Hardman Photography)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - In front of a room full of reporters, Josh Powell's estranged sister Jennifer Graves opened up for the first time since the deaths of her two nephews, Charlie, 7 and Braden, 5. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 07:11 PM
TACOMA, Wash. (ABC 4 News) - The director for the agency responsible for 911 call in Pierce County, Washington responded to criticism over the way dispatch operators answered calls from a the social worker who brought Josh Powell's children to his home shortly before he took their lives and his own.
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 03:42 PM
Josh Powell attends Susan Powell vigil (KOMO)
SEATTLE (AP) - An uncle and aunt of Josh Powell issued a statement saying there's no justification for the loss of his children, but Maurice and Patti Leach feel "this family tragedy was set into motion from the beginning due in part to the various questionable government agencies' practices, religious bias, the internet kangaroo courts, and sensationalized news media."
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 02:38 PM
Burned Powell home
SEATTLE (AP) - Washington state authorities say they're not happy with the performance of a 911 dispatcher during last weekend's murder-suicide involving the husband of a missing Utah woman.
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:43 PM
Josh Powell arrives at court (KOMO)
TACOMA, Wash. (ABC 4 News) - A Tacoma News Tribune story says Pierce County sheriff's detectives confiscated the cell phone of Josh Powell's sister Alina after she refused to give emails and voicemails he left for her before he killed his sons Sunday.
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:28 PM
Explosion kills Josh Powell and two children (Laura Graham, KOMO TV)
GRAHAM, Wash. (ABC 4 News) - The 911 call made by the social worker who last saw Josh Powell and his two children alive was released. The social worker called 911 just moments before and after the house exploded. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:55 AM
Josh Powell, 2 young boys, killed in powerful house explosion (Josh Starkey, KOMO TV )
PULLAYUP, Wash. (ABC 4 News) – People can now hear the 911 calls made at the time of the explosion that killed Josh Powell and his two young children. Josh's sister, who had no idea the house had blown up, also called 911, concerned about her brother. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:03 AM
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Powell's burned home
GRAHAM, Wash. (ABC 4 News) - The owners of the home that Josh Powell was renting in Graham, Washington are devastated that something this horrible could happen on their property. | Video
updated Wednesday, February 08, 2012 09:10 AM
Josh Powell attends Susan Powell vigil (KOMO)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – Many are asking how Josh Powell could intentionally take the lives of his own children. Psychologists say that type of murder suicide is rare. | Video
updated Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:05 PM
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Josh Powell arrives at court (KOMO)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – Last Wednesday Josh Powell was ordered to undergo a psychosexual evaluation during a custody hearing in Washington. Experts say it’s an invasive test reserved for extreme cases. | Video
updated Tuesday, February 07, 2012 06:16 PM
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Josh Powell, Susan Powell (ABC 4 News)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Utah authorities have for at least six months investigated the disappearance of Susan Powell as a murder case. But without a body, they publicly held out hope that she would be found alive. | Video
updated Tuesday, February 07, 2012 06:11 PM
Charlie and Braden Powell (Hardman Photography)
PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) - The funeral for the two sons of missing Utah woman Susan Powell has been scheduled for Saturday in Washington state.
updated Tuesday, February 07, 2012 02:50 PM
Josh Powell (ABC 4 News)
GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) - Before setting his house ablaze and killing himself and his two young sons, Josh Powell left a voicemail for family members saying he couldn't live without the boys and didn't want to go on anymore.
updated Tuesday, February 07, 2012 09:25 AM
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